TED+Talks

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I am growing very fond of Sir Ken and his philosophies on education. For my first TED talk experience, I selected Sir Ken's: Do Schools Kill Creativity. I was not surprised by anything he said, because schools **do** stifle creativity. However, the way he presented it, helps me realize how severe this issue is and opens my eyes to the creative side of my students. It makes me strive to add more "creative" opportunities in my lesson for my students. Sir Ken mentions about American's/Adults are always trying to be right. Society has drilled in our heads not to be wrong. However, when you are wrong, you discover new and interesting things. It provides the opportunity to be creative.

media type="custom" key="8070794" Johnny Lee is a genius! Mr. Lee shows what creativity can offer society. His creative way of making a simple Wii remote turn into a camera to create an interactive board is brilliant. This is a cost efficient way of creating an interactive board in all schools, regardless of budget. The school I work at personally does not have enough money to provide every teacher an interactive board. However, the school would be able to provide this to every teacher at a drastic price difference. Creating $5 3D glasses would also provide many opportunities in the classroom. It would be possible to create a class set of 3D glasses. You would also be able to use them in all grades without concern of damaging them, because replacement cost is not extensive.

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Social media has a huge influence in the world because it is a way to get your opinion and your thoughts out into the world. The magnitude of the influence is shown by the voting of a humpback whale name by the company Green Peace. "Mister Splashy Pants" was a name that Green Peace listed for people to vote on with other names that had significant cultural meaning. Society picked "Mister Splashy Pants" due to the way the social media spread the news of this vote. People who have no interest in humpback whales were still voting on the name that they liked best; not to save the humpback whales, but to see their favorite name win. Ohanian states, "The internet provides a level playing field," which constantly proves to be true and it helps spread messages to a variety of people.

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Mr. Zittrain opened my eyes to a different form of "Random Acts of Kindness". Initially, I thought this video was going to be how one can use the internet to perform random acts of kindness for people, such as sending a get-well e-card. However, this was a very interesting video that showed how the internet works in layman's terms. Mr. Zittrain explained how there is a "back room" of people that keep control of the internet and manage it, for such sites as wikipedia. There is no map to the internet, but through everyone's contributions on the internet it continues to working. There are sites built and supported to help one another and to share information with each other in a safe and correct manner. People are hired to make sure the information is not misleading.